[TYPO3-ttnews] Menu of categories - show subtree of categories without the parent category

[Amiran Chyb]

Hi there


I'd like to create a multidimensional news categorization, just like in  
tt_news documentation.
http://typo3.org/typo3temp/tx_terdoc/documentscache/t/t/tt_news-2.4.0/docbook/pictures/10000000000000BF000000A781BDF10B.png

To follow the example from the picture, I'd like to display menu of  
categories (in 'nested wraps' mode) with parent category 'Extensions'.

Unfortunately there's no way to exclude the parent category ('extensions'  
itself) from the list - I have to add its PID to includelist TS property  
to display its subtree, but adding it to excludelist at the same time  
exlcudes also all its subcategories (of course).

Before I start creating additional TS property (like  
'excludePIDWithoutChildren') I'd like to know if there's way to achieve it  
with current tt_news state. The dirty hack with 'display:none' comes to my  
mind, but unfortunately the wraps are constructed in such way, that  
applying a class attribute to level N in a tree applies it also to level  
N+1 so the markup becomes:

<div class="level-1"> level 1 category </div>
	<div class="level-1"> <div class="level-2">level 2 category</div></div>


so every css property applied to level-1 is also applied its child nodes.


thanks for suggestions

greets
Am